A History Teacher Reacts | The Pig War [Part 1/2] | Oversimplified

[Music] [Music] hey youtube i'm mr terry a high school history teacher welcome back to another history teacher reacts video alright everyone's favorite channel has uploaded again and that is oversimplified and they just released a video titled the pig war because who doesn't want another story about the united states and the united kingdom bickering over things all right i know you guys have been waiting for this for a while thank you for bearing with me here now this video is a little bit longer it looks like it's just about 39 minutes so we're gonna do two parts on this so definitely look out for part two after having watched this all right make sure you're supporting oversimplified i know you all are buy their merch view like subscribe original video link is down below um and if you like what i'm doing here i'd love to have you as a sub as well hit that like button and come join for more awesome history reactions and more history fun here on youtube all right with that let's get started this video was made possible by nordvpn click the link below to stay safe check yourself online discount off a two-year plan with a 30-day money-back guarantee trouble sleeping need someone to snuggle then why not snuggle fact me the limited edition over simplified plushie is available for pre-order for a few days only get it quick along with some beautiful new character pins yeah i love those tj look at us boys we've only gone and bloody done it we beat the brits and secured independence now to expand westward and conquer the rest of the continent uh thomas it looks like a bunch of different people already live out west what yeah oh no that means we can't expand i hate my life whoa whoa whoa i didn't say they were white people [Applause] ouch ouch very true though we're about to get into manifest destiny here thomas jefferson the uh westward expansion president right made a huge deal doubles the size of the united states by acquiring louisiana from the french under napoleon let's just keep going big wards do it at the end of the revolutionary war when the united states secured its independence from great britain the two sides met in paris to settle the terms among various things they discussed american territories thanks franklin and the british granted them a generous amount of land out west however benjamin franklin appeared to have an additional fast to the mississippi by the way so it's going to be out to the mississippi west of that is french territory nation oh canada so voluptuous you think we can maybe acquire some of that quit ogling our territory but look at those curves i'd worry less about canada's curves and more about your own curves benjamin manny you also love the women he likes those curves too erica suggested that one day the canadian colonies should become a part of the united states in response britain suggested that many in america should shut the hell up also that's where loyalists went a lot of loyalists in the revolutionary war people that were still loyal to the british went up to canada where sentiments were a lot stronger towards uh britain than say the newly created united states well if britain wasn't going to give up canada then the two sites had to agree on where to put their border easy enough for the most part follow some existing borders add in a few rivers and lakes maybe even a parallel for good measure what a mess there was a question what would happen here minnesota straight line straight line and so it was the border would go from the northwesternmost point of this perfectly oval-shaped lake and continue in a straight line westward until it met the mississippi river perfect or was it well as it turned out the lake didn't actually look like this but like this and the mississippi wasn't here but here so in the end none of that made even the slightest bit of sense don't blame them you're thought about hard it is to really get cartography and get borders down things shift and one of the problems with river borders sometimes is that rivers can shift sometimes and that can happen and that can change borders um but yeah you'd think this kind of stuff would happen more than it does especially in older times when cartographic knowledge was uh a lot weaker than it is now the founding fathers they were just using the best map available blame the guy who made it but to the minds of the day the issue had been solved and it was finally time to start getting along oh back to war they go the glorious war of 1812 saw the americans try to invade canada and the british burned down the white house but when all was said and done it was pretty much a draw and once again america and britain had to enter into peace negotiations don't tell that to canada canadian commenters are typing right now this is a pride of their country right by now both sides realize the original border they came up with was a piece of hot garbage and since america had also recently obtained a huge amount of land from napoleon they decided they would need to re-examine the border issue straight line straight line straight line and so it was what was the problems of the previous border agreement they decided to go from the northwesternmost point of this lake as had been previously agreed down to the 49th parallel and from there the line would go straight as an arrow up until the rocky mountains but beyond the rockies the two sides couldn't quite agree on where it would go because both sides claimed the territory beyond the rockies was theirs see throughout its early history america as a nation had its eyes heavily fixated on all that juicy land out west right for invasion i mean settlementation america wanted to expand not only was it their right some believed it was a destiny given to them by god himself manifested to multiply and spread across the continent and and specifically to spread uh america to civilization as they call they would think of these lands as uncivilized by the locals that live there but yeah it was like a god-given right to basically the united states exists from coast to coast atlantic to the pacific and this era in the first half of the 1800s is kind of that manifest destiny era so you get buying of land you're going to get the whole conflict that they're about to get down here with the oregon country and then the u.s u.s mexico award right and in the mexican-american war too that's going to take a ton of terry and basically complete this manifest destiny journey over multiple presidents by the way like rats or disease okay guys just before we take over everything god definitely said this is what we're meant to do right right yeah well it was one of us there's no way we made this whole thing up to justify ruthless collective imperialist tendencies yeah all right well in that case let's get out there and make the world a better place just as god intended there was so much going on there hold on okay this like five seconds just does this not just sum up the united states right now coming in you got your freaking tommy guns coming in obliterating the buffalo railroad track going crazy and then just plopping down a mcdonald's right on a native american settlement this is this is american history in five seconds and that's a disbelief in divinely destruction later be given its very own name manifest destiny but america wasn't the only one interested in controlling the western territories at the time canada was brought in a number of colonies collectively referred to as british north america this one over here was owned by the hudson's bay company a british charter company dedicated to turning as many beavers as possible into as many felt hats as possible as quickly as possible and the indigenous people became a key supplier as a result the british were also eager to get so that's how hats are made i don't know it was that easy control the land out west and secure that region's valuable reason by the way the british love beaver um you know a lot of the furbearing animals have been hunted to basically near extinction in britain so um there in like canada and the united states before it was full of those type of animals and those were also nearly hunted to extinction but they were so profitable to sell back in europe horses and in particular the great columbia river was deemed vital to the beaver business so when it came to the question of what would happen to the border beyond the rockies the conversation went a little like this the line should keep going straight because we're manifestly destined to gain the entire north american continent no we need this river so we can keep scalping beavers look why don't we just draw the border along the river that way we both have access to it well that would be a completely fair compromise that protects the interests of both parties and there's no way i'm ever going to agree to it having come to a roadblock by the way did you guys notice the uh you one thing oversimplified you have to do is look in the background because it goes it goes on and on they have more and more easter eggs and stuff so i noticed the little nes controller down there thank you very much i love the nes watch me play that on my gaming channel um i love this i would love to have this uh this poster if you could see my mouse above their little map there be a legend no bad latitude that's a great cartography joke and then okay then we got yeah we got a whole bunch of the other stuff from from the preview like at the civil war the the tomato what was his name tomato hat spaghetti head guy that was up for election you got some john lennon great both have access to it well that would be a completely fair compromise that protects the interests of both parties and there's no way i'm ever gonna agree to it having come to a roadblock both sides simply agreed that for now they would jointly occupy the northwestern territory they were both free to settle and trade there but rest assured the agreement was only temporary exactly eventually somebody would get their way just to put a policy listen yank we can jointly occupy this land but i ain't sharing anything else i don't want to see you using my toothbrush i don't want to catch you wearing my underwear and i don't want to catch you using my computer and selling my data to advertisers lord vpn then you my friend should use nordvpn what the [ __ ] do you like giving strangers your passwords to your most important online accounts me neither get it fixed all your easy to use video no annoying popped in your country nordvp plus an additional month now where were we oh yeah bickering over boundaries manifesting destiny and a joint occupation of oregon and one man living here who felt the territory should be british was james douglas the hudson's bay company's no-nonsense chief factor at fort vancouver ah what a beautiful unspoiled corner of the british empire i've got my spotted dick my spice girls fan club membership and an unrelenting negative outlook on life that affects everyone around me oh god are you looking at steven yes truly british what the [Music] america heck yeah the problem for men like douglas was that many americans had already begun streaming up the oregon trails gunslinging howdy neighboring diarrhea having thousands howdy neighbor the problem for men like douglas was that many americans had already begun streaming up the oregon trail gunslinging howdy neighboring diarrhea having by the thousands they were out of dysentery in search of land to settle and farm right this however crowded out the fur trade and eventually very bitter douglas and the other hundreds of traders at fort vancouver were ordered to relocate north to a new base of operations but the americans keep coming and they don't stop coming hopped in their wagons and they hit the ground running didn't make sense to keep sharing oregon when they outnumbered the brits keep doing the song and suddenly the whole joint occupation deal was being called into question newly elected president polk maintained that america had an obvious claim to the entire region even implying a possible war with britain fiery language from the u.s fighters declared that american rifles would annihilate the hudson's bay company in oregon and america even gave up notice that it was pulling out of the joint occupation agreement the british were alarmed as the two sides stood on the brink of war but in the end neither truly wanted to fight the british favored maintaining good economic relations while the americans had already gotten themselves into a war with mexico so after a bit of back and forth the british finally said fine you wanted a straight line there there's your straight line i don't make sense right it's about halfway through this disputed territory so let's just keep it going straight right and so the agreement was made the border would continue directly to the strait of georgia but because the british insisted they keep vancouver island it would then move south through the center of the channel and on to the pacific ocean finally the issue yeah that was kind of interesting yeah they didn't want to split up the island i guess that would that would be kind of difficult to do that that little point up in um minnesota right there if you can see my marker little tiny point that's kind of weird too because there's a lake and there's a tiny little um corridor or whatever they call that there of land and it kind of makes it weird because it's like you have this little little chunk of united states that you have to go through canada to get to because it's um there's a lake in the way so i guess it makes it simpler west border had been solved hold the phone discrepancy detected enhanced frame 200 enhanced there's those other little islands yeah enhanced that was disputed nope too far perfect now show me the exact wording of the treaty the line of boundary goes to the middle of the channel and thence southerly through the middle of said channel but there's loads of channels so you tell me dear viewer which channel is the treaty referring to and therefore who owns these islands is the wording of the treaty maybe a little too vague well that's exactly the problem encountered by the people living in the area the british insisted that the channel intended by the treaty was the rosario strait and therefore the islands were british the americans on the other hand argued that the intended channel was the harrow strait and therefore the islands were american at times the debate became rather heated individuals who negotiated and signed the treaty at times didn't seem entirely sure which channel the treaty meant and representatives from the hudson's bay company baked them to make it clearer but thousands of miles away the people in power simply had more to worry about than some tiny islands in the middle of nowhere [Applause] all right listen up we got a lot to get through the seventh earl of jizzingham says he encountered a foul beast in the fields of upper fartingdom late last night and put this sketch together farting him that's a poor person darren next lord piddling him says he has a new mole on his backside how is that parliamentary business george oh some islands in the pacific northwest are in dispute and could lead to a war with america boring fine let's take a look at that mold [Applause] [Laughter] and so for now the islands are simply held in dispute they're all cheering british or were they american i'm sure this conflict won't cause anyone see i like i like the uh you're seeing those videos like in parliament or something and it happens in other countries too or they have like fights actually on the floor of their congress you know the united states the the you know they they bicker back and forth you know in in the senate house of representative stuff but like let's get back we need some fights some fist fights don't we no not really but it'd be entertaining to die and one man who thought the islands were undeniably british was james douglas now the governor of vancouver island he had already once had american settlers encroach on his territory and force him to move and by golly he wasn't going to let it happen again as far as he was concerned those islands were not only british but prime agricultural land and given the chance those globby yanks wouldn't hesitate to start pitching flags with their globby little hands and so he came up with a plan if the british settled the islands first then that would surely secure them for britain and so in 1855 douglas sent an irishman by the name of charles griffin along with some hawaiian shepherds to go set up a sheep farm on san juan island and set up a sheep farm they did the place was rammed with sheep 1 369 to be exact but within those flocks of woolly cowards could also be found a number of beautiful prized berkshire pigs yeah oh oink porky you look stunning you're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me they're really gray like that perhaps like to go to the island bowl together tonight oink once for no roll around in that cow crap if yes yes i'm covered in poo and i'm the luckiest man alive but life on the island for charles griffin wasn't to be a perfect paradise of pig pageants because unfortunately for him the americans also believed the island was theirs one keeper 1854. an american customs collector was sailing around the islands on the outlook for bands of native tribesmen when he spotted something aha i've got you now you savages over yonder those are cheap sir sheep you say what are they doing here let's go and negotiate with them negotiate with sheep are you crazy i'm perfectly stable your rat bag call me crazy again and i'll eat your eyes hello good sir we request to speak with your leader out of my way allow me to parlay with this foul beast [Music] hey hey stop threatening my sheep your sheep you mean to tell me that you a british subject have illegally imported these sheep into american territory i'll have you know that you an american are currently trespassing on british that territory were entitled to collect taxes on the british property you know because the island was american and they threatened seizure if dues weren't paid the british meanwhile threatened to arrest the americans you know because the island was british and the two sides were in a standoff to give charles griffin the legal power to deal with the american trespassers douglas said hey put on this wig boom you're a magistrate now nailed it in turn griffin went to one of his hawaiian shepherds and said hey i'm making you a constable put on this badge a brush then went off to arrest the us customs inspector but being an american he emerged from his tent with four pistols and a giant knife so the brits had gone full rambo eventually raids by northern tribes chased the us officer from the island but the americans weren't done yet officials from nearby whatcom county in washington territory believe the island fell under their jurisdiction and they decided it was time to make the british pay up once and for all i mean doesn't it seem like they're all this i mean the british were there it was originally joint territory so they were there and it's just those few islands um it kind of seems like the british have a stronger claim to it i mean possession is what nine tenths of the law or something like that but you know i get it it's america you know it will want more more more they sent one sheriff barnes to go confront charles griffin hey you owe us 80 and 33 cents for all this farm stuff you got here go suck an egg oh i see we all see what he types huh that's how it's going to be on the calculator that's the way in which things are eh that be how it will is it will it be how that is huh that be the way in which things be the way they are is that get off my property so the sheriff and other whatcom county officials felt they were now well within their rights to seize and auction off griffin's sheep in order to recoup lost taxes and who would they auction these prized breeding rams off to but themselves then in a pretty chaotic scene they worked to tie the rams to their boats and when charles griffin came running to rescue his kidnapped sheep being americans they pulled out guns on him and he had to back down he answered charles griffin lost 34 breeding rams and he was furious the british complained to the american government who were shocked to hear what had been going on at their northwest border and both governments told their officials in the area to back off we're not trying to start a major war over some dumb sheep and this stupid island but also the islands are definitely ours under no circumstances let the other side have them for now both governments agreed to set up yet another boundary commission to decide which channel was the correct border but it often devolved into petty bickering the british did make one interesting suggestion though we could draw the border through this middle channel and split the islands between us well that would be a completely fair compromise that protects the interests of both parties but and there's no way i'm ever gonna agree to it and in the aftermath of the sheep raid james douglas still stationed at fort victoria became even more cautious of american encroachment into his territory uh mr douglas sir it appears an indian has discovered gold in the fraser canyon just north of here shut up keep your voice down boy we can't risk those globby americans hearing about this or our territory here will be infested with them oh no america democracy has arrived the fraser canyon gold rush attracted a heap of americans to the region some gold got lucky most monopoly not and of those that didn't rather than return was with those the people that come from the gold rush in general is they come out everybody wants it and it's just you hear about one person being successful and it brings out a whole uh a ton of people right hoping to just get i mean it's straight up luck right because a lot of problems and where you can get some wild west tendencies right way home many simply decided to settle in the area and in particular the juicy green pastures of san juan island were rather appealing believing the island was american territory around a dozen american settlers moved there in the late 1850s one of them was a man named lyman cutler a young man in his mid-20s and lazy as pie he didn't want to have to clear a space in the forest to build his home so he said i'll just build my cabin right in the middle of this british sheep run and i'm sure that won't make anyone mad when he planted potato seeds in his garden rather than building a nice protective fence around them he said i'll just fence in three sides and hope all these british farm animals have a moral compass and respect my property rights griffin's a berkshire well known for rooting and lyman's fairly pathetic fence made for a bad combination numerous times he had had to take away from his property and he once angrily marched up to griffin's home saying hey british farm idiot keep your stupid pig out of my potatoes it is up to you build your fans keep your potatoes out of my pig okay griffin was few really set that up neighbors they built their homes all over his shoes i mean it's so ridiculous of a thing to say that like it's fine to say that you just build the rest of your fence plus you're just squatting on the land pastures and besides what right did they have to be here anyway it was british territory lyman on the other hand swore the local government had assured him his land claims were legitimate and so to him the british were out of line look at that sick freak in love with his pig isn't that just sick yeah what a freak not like our love spidey potato is all natural yeah just a man in his potato nothing wrong with that but the tension between lyman and griffin was just about to explode all right you damn dirty no that stuff no straw lyman shot the pig that is a good place to stop for now all right so yeah that was a good place i think to stop off looks like we've set up the pig war that's about to happen over this disputed territory here in the northwest but this has been great there's been a lot of details especially with the the whole kind of territorial dispute in this oregon country here kind of the last of the territorial disputes really left between what's going to be canada and the united states so these little details are are great but yeah i learned a lot about how you know like establishing borders and things is such a difficult thing in history and um history of borders is a really fascinating thing there's a lot of stuff i've seen on youtube and other places that tell you about the uh tell you about those and they're really cool to look at you should definitely check them out how did countries get their shapes and there's a lot of conflict and odd stories like this that come around uh quite a bit all right i'm hoping that if you stayed this long that you liked what was going on give the video a like and definitely sub and then enable notifications so you can see when uh part two comes out so definitely be looking out for part two and we'll watch the rest of this and i'll tell you what i think and with that we'll see you next time bye [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 26min 27sec (1587 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 15 2021